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Community MetaSteam | March 2023 - You know, Wo Leon, we really are the last of March
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All aboard the hype train.
Yeah it was me asking that by the way!I remember someone wondering if the "SNEG" games would appear on GOG:
They're getting all of them from sneg so that's cool
Silver Box Classics
This collection brings back a gathering of adaptations of the events in the first four Dr
Man, Lance Reddick's death hit me hard. It just came out of nowhere.
RIP. Kinda surprised he was 60, would have pegged him at mid 40s. Damn shame.
One of those things, if I saw Lance Reddick was in something there was at least something worth watching for.
probably the only decent thing about the Netflix resident evil series. Plus absolutely loved him in Fringe.
probably the only decent thing about the Netflix resident evil series. Plus absolutely loved him in Fringe.
Sackboy is currently available at Gamebillet (apparently an official store) for <25€ ( Buy cheap Sackboy: A Big Adventure cd key - lowest price ).
That's more in line with what I'm willing to pay for it so I just bought it. Got the key after a minute.
That's more in line with what I'm willing to pay for it so I just bought it. Got the key after a minute.
Sounds like an interesting idea. And I am guessing it could lead to more game guides from people. Guides section is great on steam but you do have to go through a lot of hoops to get to that section now. Maybe Valve is trying to streamline it like reviews.
Damn, Like Dragon is really cheap at gamebillet but RE4 is out next week. I wish it hit that price sooner. Oh well, I'll get it during the summer sale.
I’m at 112 games on the whishlist ! Omygadwatdidido ?
On another hand, pretty satisfied. It’s a start for a new me, as in love as ever with games, but less Ocd.
On another hand, pretty satisfied. It’s a start for a new me, as in love as ever with games, but less Ocd.
RIP Lance Reddick, out of nowhere. 
I played it vanilla and didn't feel the need for mods actually, I'd say go straight into it
I finished it at launch. Overall I liked it slightly less than the first, but it is close, and I still enjoyed it well enough to spend 90 hours playing it until completion. The city is fun, soundtrack is fantastic, melee combat and parkour is still great. Story is mediocre-to-bad but the inclusion of some story and dialogue choices spice it up. It is also brilliant RTGI showing, the lighting looks so good.
Devastating really. Wire, Quantum Break, Horizon, John Wick - he was so charismatic no matter where he was.
I've played about 2-3 hours of it.
Really liked the first, ran through it (ha) a couple of times. This one hasn't really grabbed me yet. I might go back to it at some point. It looked good and was basically more of the same, just didnt click with me for some reason.
I played the first game and it's expansion in co-op with a friend and liked it a lot. So I was quite looking forward to the sequel but it turned out to be probably the most disappointing game I played last year.
The only good thing I have to say about it is that it had nice graphics. And I guess some of the bespoke missions were okay with some of the puzzle solving+parkour required. Every other aspect of the game ranges from mediocre to disastrous.
First of all, the writing sucks. Yes, it's a zombie game, what do you really expect, but they made a big deal about how the game would have a complex story and your choices would have major consequences and change the city as you played. I guess that was Chris Avellone's narrative vision that died when he was let go from the project. That turned out to be a mistake because what they shipped was garbage. Your choices result in the most minute, inconsequential changes to the game. So for example, if you choose to side with one faction, you will get access to ziplines to traverse the city a bit faster. If you choose the other faction, you unlock these air vent sort of things that boost you up into the air so that you can glide for some distance to traverse the city a bit faster. You pick one side and you get one gadget, you pick the other side and you get another one. That's the extent of the choices and consequences they made such a big deal about. The story itself is awful and the protagonist is also an awful person written awfully. "Well yes, I know you just authorized mass murder against citizens in this city but you know what, I'll just ignore all that to complete whatever quest you have for me". <- That's a real thing that happens in the game. Another thing I remember is just how many times the story has a scripted sequence where you get knocked out, your screen goes black and you wake up in captivity. Seriously this trope repeats about 8-10 times in the game. It's even worse than Far Cry 5 was in that regard.
Next, a big open world just does not work for this series. This might sound counterintuitive for a parkour based game but it's how I feel. The first game also had an open world but it was a small, constricted area which let you freely parkour almost all the time and it was actually dangerous to travel around, especially at night. This game has a huge open world which means you can't always parkour to traverse it. Wide open roads where it is just better to run around zombies instead of being forced to fight through them. It's also a Ubisoft style open world which means you have towers that you have to scale which unlock a multitude of icons on your map that you have to clear because you need the XP to get skill points to unlock all the abilities they've locked behind the skill trees. Combat, parkour and traversal feel extremely limited until you have a large number of skill points invested into making them better. I don't exactly remember how skill upgrades worked in the first game but here they've locked away even the most basic things like double jumping or momentum conservation behind skill upgrades. Parkour does not become fun until you are deep into the skill tree. Night time is not nearly as dangerous as it was in the last game because this open world is huge and so they had to add safe areas everywhere (in the form of bright purple UV lights/lamps) on rooftops and such. The horror aspect is completely gone because even if you are being chased by a horde of zombies you are never more than 30 seconds away from a UV light.
Then there are the bugs. I played it at launch and it was horrible back then. I assume they must have fixed many of the issues since. I played it for about 40 hours in co-op with my friend and I don't think there was a single session where something didn't go wrong. Connection issues, crashes, achievements not working, quest triggers not working, missing NPCs, broken AI, enemies that glitch into walls, quest items and weapons disappearing from your inventory and anything else you can imagine can go wrong did. I remember taking a quest and finishing it and when I went back to turn it in the quest giver was floating above ground with no way to interact with him. Another super annoying bug was with those purple lights I mentioned. They're supposed to be visible from a distance so that you know where to go for safety but in my game one of those lights got stuck on my HUD and I had a permanent purple blotch on my screen for the last third of the game. Cannot even remember how many other bugs I ran into. Also if you play it in co-op, progress does not save for anyone but the host. I was the host and sometimes it didn't even register for me. I have, for example, the achievement for completing the game but I'm missing main story related achievements that came before it.
I'm actually amazed it has such a positive rating on Steam. I deeply regret spending money to buy the expensive edition of the game at launch. Although it is interesting that even today more people play DL1 than they do the sequel.
EDIT: I found my post from Feb last year where I talk in brief about how bad the game is (includes a screenshot of the quest giver who was unbothered by gravity).
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just keep in mind - if you've got EOS blocked, the game will take like 10 minutes to get into the menu (it's not loading anything, just sitting there waiting for EOS to finally give up trying to connect)
i cometh back again to spread my words on the games and no games talk
but i haven't played any games lately, so here's life stuff
- art
i begun doing "art" again, if you can call it that - it's not original stuff, i just looked at Nishikiyama's tattoo and drew it on paper, it was cool - but it's not real art, real art is something you make and create by yourself from scratch, an original idea
although this tattoo is so cool that i dont really mind that anymore, i even drew it with a marker on my arm as a DIY tattoo - xylene markers are the best, especially if you combine it with some lead on the skin
- miller
robin atkin downes has a tendency to affect my life in the strangest of ways - from voicing Travis Touchdown and giving myself a personal mantra of him telling me to grow some balls - into once again (as this has happened more than once): motivating myself through Kazuhira Miller from MGSV
i can't go into detail as it'd be embarrasing, but in short - THE WORLD CALLS FOR WET WORK - AND WE ANSWER IT. NO GREATER GOOD. NO JUST CAUSE. (WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT) BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH B-NB-B-B-BITCH (THEY PLAYED US LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE)
but i haven't played any games lately, so here's life stuff
- art
i begun doing "art" again, if you can call it that - it's not original stuff, i just looked at Nishikiyama's tattoo and drew it on paper, it was cool - but it's not real art, real art is something you make and create by yourself from scratch, an original idea
although this tattoo is so cool that i dont really mind that anymore, i even drew it with a marker on my arm as a DIY tattoo - xylene markers are the best, especially if you combine it with some lead on the skin
- miller
robin atkin downes has a tendency to affect my life in the strangest of ways - from voicing Travis Touchdown and giving myself a personal mantra of him telling me to grow some balls - into once again (as this has happened more than once): motivating myself through Kazuhira Miller from MGSV
i can't go into detail as it'd be embarrasing, but in short - THE WORLD CALLS FOR WET WORK - AND WE ANSWER IT. NO GREATER GOOD. NO JUST CAUSE. (WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT) BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH B-NB-B-B-BITCH (THEY PLAYED US LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE)
Is this just how DL2 handles it, or does EOS have a default timeout of around 10 minutes all the time?
i think the default one is really damn long, but a lot of games definitely shorten it. Some don't though - like Redout 2, for example, also takes FOREVER to get into the menu
Started Hitman 3 after i heard of its new roguelite mode and it has motion blur turned off by default in the settings
Non-limb motion blur will forever be a setting that confuses the shit out of me. Why the fuck would I want to be able to see lessStarted Hitman 3 after i heard of its new roguelite mode and it has motion blur turned off by default in the settings
Amplitude's Endless Space 2 is probably my favorite 4x, but I can't recommend Humankind. I enjoy Civ V/VI well enough but they did get very "samey" after a few complete games, but Humankind gets "samey" in the very first game you play. It throws a ton of choices at you but most of them you could flip a coin for and arrive at the same end point. The last time I played it was in the beta for the DLC and the DLC makes the game actively worse (adds more menus, decisions that TRULY do not matter, and buggy stealth units) and I honestly couldn't have told you what non-expansion thing had changed since launch.
The game is so bad that one of the features it had on release, pollution, they now disable by default because after over a year and a DLC they never figured out how to actually make it not an insta-loss against AI.
Honestly the game feels like one of those that would be significantly better if there was no PvP option - all the potential interesting mechanics etc. are incredibly weak because of potential human v human balance.
Well.
I've got some Steambux as birthday presents, so I've been filling my cart. I suppose that's enough for the rest of the year
I've got some Steambux as birthday presents, so I've been filling my cart. I suppose that's enough for the rest of the year
What needs to b done?Is there anyone here with last gen or new gen AMD GPU that is not interested in TLoU and that is willing to help me activate AMD code if i manage to get one?
Download some AMD app, log in with info I give you and redeem key. That's it if I remember correctly.
So what happened to Counter Strike 2?
Or CSGO 2
Or CSGO Source 2 update
Where is it?
Was it all a fake news troll?
What are you up to Valve...
Reveal it
REVEAL IT NOW!!!!
Or CSGO 2
Or CSGO Source 2 update
Where is it?
Was it all a fake news troll?
What are you up to Valve...
Reveal it
REVEAL IT NOW!!!!
The first one I really enjoyed and it surprised the hell out of me because they made dead island and I really hated that game. So I was pretty excited for dying light 2 but I'm sad to say they completely whiffed on it. It doesn't feel as fun to traverse the world as 1 despite having more parkour abilities, it's not designed as tight and intelligently as 1 which I think is what made the parkour fun in the first. It was very buggy too but I imagine by now some of that was cleaned up. At launch the game felt incomplete too especially the ending. The game has a focus on picking one of 2 factions to side with and as I was doing a mission investigating the leader of one of them, I got caught (story reason not caught as in I messed up) and they said they would ignore it.....and then the end game sequence triggered right after that, which has nothing to do with factions it's the MC's personal story with finding his sister. They completely dropped what was going on and just moved right to the end.
What hurts the most though is you know that awesome demo the game had in like 2019? That game doesn't exist, almost nothing from it is still in and certainly not the ambitious, fluid quest design it showed. It was clear they struggled with that for years and had to scrap all of it, and I sadly assumed that'd be the case after chris avellone left the project. In fact there's only 1 part of that demo still in the game and I have to spoiler it since it involves major story stuff
The gist of that mission is still in, like you have to sneak into the plant still. But that mission is now the end game mission. That's right they essentially showed the end of the game on a public demonstration years prior.
I am sure that it will be difficult and also very expensive, but I plan to make it my goal to go and see the 2026 World Cup and also the 2028 Olympic. Both of these will be held at the Sofi stadium. So that's pretty cool how I may potentially be able to see these two events in person.
I also know that for a fact that the team that I plan to go see will have the stadium full when I go see them as well (not team US) so hopefully I manage somehow.
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By the way does anyone know a place that I can go to, to talk about manga and stuff? I just sucks how I don't have people local to me that also read manga and online is just a mess.
I also know that for a fact that the team that I plan to go see will have the stadium full when I go see them as well (not team US) so hopefully I manage somehow.
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By the way does anyone know a place that I can go to, to talk about manga and stuff? I just sucks how I don't have people local to me that also read manga and online is just a mess.
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Sale Haul !
With the help of key sites when needed, obviously.
The first three are whatever and I somewhat regret buying them, but they didn't cost much. The fifth one is a short yuri VN I discovered in the forum next door. Pretty satisfied of myself. Hugely satisfied even. Just have to lie low for the rest of March and not be tempted by the shiny new releases.
With the help of key sites when needed, obviously.
The first three are whatever and I somewhat regret buying them, but they didn't cost much. The fifth one is a short yuri VN I discovered in the forum next door. Pretty satisfied of myself. Hugely satisfied even. Just have to lie low for the rest of March and not be tempted by the shiny new releases.
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Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit.
Sale Haul !
With the help of key sites when needed, obviously.
The first three are whatever and I somewhat regret buying them, but they didn't cost much. The fifth one is a short yuri VN I discovered in the forum next door. Pretty satisfied of myself. Hugely satisfied even. Just have to lie low for the rest of March and not be tempted by the shiny new releases.
Play Hi-Fi Rush, now.
A small-ish haul for me this time around, due to Resident Evil 4 looming.
I wanted to get either Tactics Ogre Reborn or Harvestella in the sale, but decided on Harvestella due to so many people identifying it as a sleeper hit (I'm OK with the game being less farming oriented than the name suggests, lol).
I also decided to pull the trigger on Super Robot Wars X as it was 75% off. Not as big a fan of the featured franchises in X vs. SRW V (which had Evangelion!) but it looks like a good enough time.
Also, I spent half my Saturday blasting through the Diablo IV beta on bnet. Server issues nonwithstanding (that game absolutely did not have to be always online, smh) it's looking like an amazing game with a shit ton of content. The full game launch is going to be enormous!
Seconding the Hi-Fi Rush recommendation. Play it!Sale Haul !
With the help of key sites when needed, obviously.
The first three are whatever and I somewhat regret buying them, but they didn't cost much. The fifth one is a short yuri VN I discovered in the forum next door. Pretty satisfied of myself. Hugely satisfied even. Just have to lie low for the rest of March and not be tempted by the shiny new releases.
Also, A Space for the Unbound! Good work.
and in actual game news:
got this on my timeline on youtube as a recommended video after i saw this guy's video on loch'n'load
for those out of the loop: i textured this years ago, and now my stuff's been seen by 353k more people
my ego's great
got this on my timeline on youtube as a recommended video after i saw this guy's video on loch'n'load
for those out of the loop: i textured this years ago, and now my stuff's been seen by 353k more people
my ego's great
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